Not idly, therefore, the great (mystics) said this: “The body of the holy ones (the saints) is essentially pure as (their) spirit.”2000

پس بزرگان این نگفتند از گزاف ** جسم پاکان عین جان افتاد صاف‌‌

Their speech and soul and form, all (this) is absolute spirit without (external) trace.

گفتشان و نفسشان و نقششان ** جمله جان مطلق آمد بی‌‌نشان‌‌

The spirit that regards them with enmity is a mere body; like the plus in (the game called) nard, it is a mere name.

جان دشمن دارشان جسم است صرف ** چون زیاد از نرد او اسم است صرف‌‌

That one (the body of the enemy of the saints) went into the earth (grave) and became earth entirely; this (holy body) went into the salt and became entirely pure—

آن به خاک اندر شد و کل خاک شد ** وین نمک اندر شد و کل پاک شد

The (spiritual) salt through which Mohammed is more refined (than all others): he is more eloquent than that salt-seasoned (elegantly expressed) Hadíth.

آن نمک کز وی محمد املح است ** ز آن حدیث با نمک او افصح است‌‌

This salt is surviving in his heritage: those heirs of his are with thee. Seek them!2005

این نمک باقی است از میراث او ** با تواند آن وارثان او بجو

He (the spiritual heir of Mohammed) is seated in front of thee, (but) where indeed is thy “front”? He is before thee, (but) where is the soul that thinks “before”?

پیش تو شسته ترا خود پیش کو ** پیش هستت جان پیش اندیش کو

If thou fancy thou hast a “before” and “behind,” thou art tied to body and deprived of spirit.

گر تو خود را پیش و پس داری گمان ** بسته‌‌ی جسمی و محرومی ز جان‌‌

“Below” and “above,” “before” and “behind” are attributes of the body: the essence of the bright spirit is without relations (not limited by relations of place).

زیر و بالا پیش و پس وصف تن است ** بی‌‌جهت آن ذات جان روشن است‌‌

Open thy (inward) vision with the pure light of the King. Beware of fancying, like one who is short-sighted,

بر گشا از نور پاک شه نظر ** تا نپنداری تو چون کوته نظر

That thou art only this very (body living) in grief and joy. O (thou who art really) non-existence, where (are) “before” and “behind” (appertaining) to non-existence?2010

که همینی در غم و شادی و بس ** ای عدم کو مر عدم را پیش و پس‌‌

’Tis a day of rain: journey on till night—not (sped) by this (earthly) rain but by the rain of the Lord.

روز باران است می‌‌رو تا به شب ** نی از این باران از آن باران رب‌‌

The story of ‘Á’isha, may God be well-pleased with her, how she asked Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, saying, “It rained to-day: since thou wentest to the graveyard, how is it that thy clothes are not wet?”

He said, “O pure-bosomed one, that is why God revealed to thy pure eye the rain of the Unseen.

گفت بهر آن نمود ای پاک جیب ** چشم پاکت را خدا باران غیب‌‌

That rain is not from your clouds: there are other clouds and another sky.”

نیست آن باران از این ابر شما ** هست ابری دیگر و دیگر سما

Commentary on the verse of Hakím (Saná’í): “In the realm of the soul are skies lording over the sky of this world. In the Way of the spirit there are lowlands and highlands, there are lofty mountains and seas.”